World Council

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The World Council Headquarters reside in a sovereign international parcel of land under the Council's own direct control in the heart of Loweport, Arthurista. Besides its primary objective of preventing a nuclear Armageddon through diplomacy, the World Council membership has amended the charter to include such mandates as maintaining international peace and security, policing the civilized exercise of conventional war among nations, and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict.

The Council has two primary organs: the World Council itself as an assembly constituent body, and the Grand Tribunal. The Grand Tribunal functions as a high court of last resort and deals as an international arbiter explicitly with matters of nuclear warfare, proliferation, and threats to humanity and the environment enforced by the power of sanctions, trade embargoes, and other forms of economic police powers such as asset liquidity controls.

The development of nuclear weapons and their apocalyptic potential sparked a movement called the "International Congress for Nuclear Control," later to be called the "Movement for a World Council."

Founding

The "Movement for a World Council" quickly won support among elites in Arthurista, Emmeria, Belfras, Belhavia, Tarsas, as well as the leading governments of the Communist bloc who feared that the chief anticommunist and capitalist powers would unilaterally utilize nuclear strikes against them in surprise assaults.

On April 17th, 1953, in a speech to the Parliament of Arthurista, Arthuristan Prime Minister Hamish MacDonalds called on the world to "create an international forum to stave off the jittery, impulsive hitting of a button that will bring global nuclear holocaust, and where an international congress or some such can deliberate and allow cooler heads to prevail and protect all of us from irrational oblivion over mere ideological differences in political economy."

The MacDonalds speech sparked broader interest across the early Cold War divide to control nuclear weapons and provide an impartial body to hash out concerns before accidental nuclear apocalypse occurred during a future geopolitical crisis. On July 10th, 1953, President Yavin Leibniz of Belhavia joined MacDonald's call in a major press conference. This would lead to the famous Arthuro-Belhavian détente on the eve of the World Council Charter signing in early 1956.

By December 1954, all major world Anticommunist bloc powers as well as the leaders of the Communist bloc had come to the table, and negotiations stretched for over 15 months. In February 1955 and January 1956, negotiations broke off when either the Communist or Anticommunist bloc walked out after unsuccessful discussions. However, by early March 1956 all sides had agreed to and produced a tentative Charter.

Notable Non-Members

Dacia

Following the conclusion of the South Ashizwe Border War in 1993 and the renewed anti-apartheid debates in the Council, the political winds within the global body changed as a resolution sponsored by jointly by the DSRA and Arthurista sought to force an end to the apartheid regimes in Westonaria and Dacia. In reaction to the likely passage of that resolution, the Westonarian and Dacian governments withdrew from the World Council.

As a geopolitical protégé of Tarsas and with strong connections to leading global powers such as Rodarion, Belhavia, and the CRE, Dacia has generally been protected from World Council ire.

Westonaria

Following the conclusion of the South Ashizwe Border War in 1993 and the renewed anti-apartheid debates in the Council, the political winds within the global body changed as a resolution sponsored by jointly by the DSRA and Arthurista sought to force an end to the apartheid regimes in Westonaria and Dacia. In reaction to the likely passage of that resolution, the Westonarian and Dacian governments withdrew from the World Council.

As a geopolitical protégé of Belhavia and with strong connections to leading global powers such as Rodarion, Tarsas, and the CRE, Westonaria has been strongly protected from the World Council's wrath.